New rules, public consultations, subsidies and regulator actions in Japan, in English.
MLIT wants first-offense vehicle suspensions for unauthorized taxi operators catering to tourists to double, from 60 to 120 days, with a parallel doubling for unlicensed freight haulers, and public comment is open until August 28, 2026.
Japan's Financial Services Agency has proposed letting ETF creators pay cash instead of buying shares when that purchase would push their stake past the 30% mandatory tender-offer threshold, with public comment open through August 28, 2026.
A public-comment draft guideline directs ministries to give extra scrutiny to power, gas, telecom and other critical-infrastructure equipment deals involving suppliers tied to Japanese sanctions, on top of an existing 30-day freeze on new gear and outsourced maintenance.
Japan's regulator has cut the minimum capital bar for investment managers to ¥10mn from ¥50mn, but only for firms that never touch client money, while a bank group has already set aside ¥160bn specifically for managers with no track record.
New and renewed fertilizer-supply certifications in Japan would carry a duty to report cyberattacks to the Cabinet's cyber office through the farm ministry, and give operators a formal channel to ask Tokyo to lean on raw-material suppliers when a shortfall looms, under a draft open for public comment until August 25, 2026.
The FSA wants asset managers to hand administrative processing to trust banks and specialist firms, arguing fragmented back-office effort is holding back Japan's asset-management ambitions.
A draft ordinance would let every Japanese company, not just listed stock companies, hide part of a representative's or manager's home address from registration certificates and the online registry lookup service that lenders and dealmakers use.
A National Police Agency proposal would require officers to notify the administrator of any computer used to attack "critical" systems by email, disclosing its IP address and what was done, but only after the intervention is already over.
MEXT's draft rule would keep two temporary medical school enrollment boosts running through the year to March 2028, the same year Tokyo pledged to start trimming doctor-training numbers.
Japan's banking regulator says shrinking a branch network is a lender's own call, not a supervisory nudge, while quietly adding a formal demand that examiners test bank profit forecasts against population decline and interest-rate scenarios.
Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority has opened public comment on scrapping the mandatory three-year reapproval of how utilities certify reactor operation supervisors, saying annual inspections already cover the ground and most renewal filings change nothing.
Japan's FSA has told regional lenders that revised supervisory guidance backs, rather than blocks, voluntary branch closures amid population decline, while adding hearings that stress-test five-year earnings and capital forecasts against demographic and interest-rate scenarios.
A one-month comment window closing August 21 will decide whether Japan's economic-security certification track also covers the services that keep critical materials flowing, not just the materials themselves.
Chuikyo, Japan's insurance-pricing panel, set a ¥53.2mn reimbursement price for ReHeart, Cuorips's iPS cell-derived cardiac tissue sheet for severe heart failure, but sales cannot begin until the official listing takes effect on September 1.
Hijacked home IoT gadgets routed at least 1,918 of Japan's 4,369 online banking fraud cases in 2024, and the ministry now wants internet providers to help close the gap before comments close on August 4.
Japan's telecom regulator wants to extend guaranteed nationwide service, and the subsidies that fund it, to mobile-network fixed phones and shared wireless broadband, a shift triggered by a new duty on carriers to supply service where no company otherwise will.
Tokyo's new reconstruction subsidy pays Japanese firms up to two-thirds of costs to pursue Ukraine rebuilding work with European or Central/Eastern European partners, but only if a feasibility study comes bundled with an actual demonstration project, not as a standalone study.
Eight Japanese government bodies have opened a five-week comment window on a draft rule naming Microsoft's Windows and Windows Server as the widely used software covered by the country's incoming critical-infrastructure incident-reporting law, due to take effect October 1.
A draft government review of Japan's small-appliance recycling law, open for public comment until August 19, singles out lithium-ion battery fires and swinging resource prices as the biggest changes since the last checkup in 2019.
Tokyo will cover three-quarters of the cost of a small emergency generator, capped at ¥3.75mn per facility, but officials say this application window is the last before the subsidy disappears.
Japan's privacy regulator wants to end the practice of cyberattack victims filing separate reports to every ministry with a claim on the incident, proposing one common form for ransomware, DDoS and other attacks that would route straight to the national cyber centre from October 1, 2026, pending an August 14 comment deadline.
Comments close August 19 on draft rules requiring designated infrastructure operators to notify Tokyo about sensitive computer systems and report qualifying cyber incidents under Japan's cyber-response law.
Japan's communications ministry is taking comment on a plan to stretch AM suspension trials toward October 2028, open up extra FM spectrum below 90 MHz under specific conditions, and drop the requirement that broadcasters announce a shutdown over the air.
A&D Co. lost its status as a designated verification body for specified measuring instruments effective July 14, cutting off a service its parent says will have only a minor financial impact while it lines up outside help for customers.